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Woday's article discusses lotteries, past and present, and takes
findings are are presented by The of five articles “of which this
“a look Into the future. It 1s excerpted from the curren wan of of Academy
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‘By ERNEST E. BLANCHE Lesisties Division General Staff
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~~ THE $64 ’ question ‘making the rounds these days is: Should the United States establish a legalized national
lottery?
Most people are inclined to answer “yes” or “no” without giving” the matter much serious consideration.
But the question is not one that can be passed off lightly. J
~~ Indeed, there are so many ramifications that even those who are in favor of . national lotteries urge caution in their establishment. There is reason to be cautious, for all lotteries are a form of gambling, scaled to meet the pocketbooks- and desires of the gambling public.
Strictly speaking, a lottery is any event in which participants | pay money to compete for prizes | which are awarded on the basis |
of chance. Under the guise of charity or religion, many civic and social organizations now conduct
forms of lotteries for the pur- |
pose of raising money. Many municipalities and have legal provisions for such games, ; Bingo, bank ‘night, drawings; and guessiri7 contests are established gambling games
counties |
[nat are conducted | in many’| civic clubs, |
and busines. associations, ° Throughout these United States, reaction to’ the lottery fluctuates between twe ex“tremes. The one is a strict interpretation of the lottery as a gambling device and therefore | | no legal sanction. The ‘other is the wide-open conduct of
churches, schools, | |
lotteries every few minutes in |
Nevada, where all forms of gambling have been lega’ized. Americans were exposed to | lotteries from the very beginning. The Virginia Company | replenished its treasury with | funds from a lottéry-in 1612. At one time or anotkter, all | thirteen: . colonies “and operated lotteries. But as | early as 1682 the Quakers of
| Pennsylvania passed an act | raffles, |
against lotteries, cards, dice, and “such like enticing. vain | and ‘evil sports and games.”
Revolution Lottery Was a Flop
During the Revolutionary War the Continental Congress authorized a national lottery to raise. 10 million dollars, but this lottery was unsuccessful and was discreetly called off. By the 1800's the lottery had achieved tremendous popularity,
~and-during-the single -year-of-1832-lotteries-were-drawn-in-eight-tates, according to the Boston Mercantile Journal. The total-sum-
paid for tickets in these lotteries was 66 million dollars — five times the expenses of the federal government for that year. The financial drain on the nation, spurious lotteries, and the increase in crime and poverty brought about the establishment of many societies for the suppression of lotteries. ~~ In 1833 Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed acts prohibiting lotteries. New York followed in 1834 and by 1840 _many other states had joined the reform. : The Southern States continued to tolerate lotteries on a - small scale, and after the Civil War they ‘endeavored to use
| them as a means of “raising funds. But public indignation {| stamped them out, the last em- | bers dying in Louisiana where ithe Louisiana State Lottery gave up its fight in 1890. Congressional action in 1890, forbidding the distribution of lottery material and tickets through the mails, sounded the ‘death knell of the lottery, while ithe 1805 action forbidding in- | terstate transportation of tick-
ets was the coup de grace. Legal lotteries ‘in this coun-
-try; except-those in Nevada; are
relatively minor events for merchandise, such as bingo or | drawings for automobiles, tele- | vision sets, or similar prizes.
| Such lotteries are subject to
established |
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der city ordinances usually set | _| "Runners Are Usually $l
clubs and a myriad of
pasts and questionable futures. Local drawings for merchan-
ments” 25 cents for one ticket or five tickets for a dollar. Players buy many tickets in the hope of winning, with the result that $10,000 worth of
worth in total only $2000. What will tomorrow's lotterfes be like? Well, just look ‘at some of the schemes that have been offered by Congressmen and other reputable citizens who advocate the national lot- | tery. “I'he nattonat lottery bill to ‘raise funds for: the Veterans Administration, introduced by Rep. Kenney (D. N.J.) came up for extensive hearings in 1934, but the Ways and Means Committee failed to act on it,
Rep. Knutson (R. Minn.),
in the lottery business, and suggested that winners be paid in war bonds rather than cash. The Associated Press quoted
lot ‘Af monéy. They can't spend | { it because many of the things | they want aren’t available, and if. we can siphon some of it | off: into the Treasury in. an {honest — gambling proposition; | nobody will suffer.” | While the Treasury Depart-
war-bond lotteries by the federal government, it has disapproved the use of war bonds as prizes in private lotteries, .punchhoard. pinball. and “other.
|. games of chance where an ele-
ment of personal profit is involved.” The entire cycle of the ups and downs of the lottery has been traversed, and many people are ready for another ride. The worthy purposes which won support for the lotteries hundreds of years ago are being cited in this new American drive for legalized gambling. Morally and legally wrong and outlawed, lotteries do more than mulct the rich and poor alike, They change the very pattern of wing, distort” the sepse of values, and incubate the eggs of crime. The financial returns, insig-
nificant in proportion to the national incc income or the federal
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~All other types of Jotteries— football pools, “Baseball “pools numbers game, policy game; sweepstakes, chain letters, variations-—are prohibifed by law. But the operators who conduct these gambling games. sur. | reptitiously distribute their tickets Bitough “runtiers” ‘with shady
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Speaker Rainey summarized the oppostion when he said, “The country has not yet been reduced to the extreme of ac-
ure.”
Tminediately after Pearl Har“por the How of Tot tery billy n=" {| creased. In December, 1041, Sen, Thomas (D. Okla.) proposed that the government sell “Remember Pearl Harbor Savings Certificates” in §1 denominations for $1.10, the extra 10 cents representing the price of an attached numbered coupon for & monthly drawing | of prizes in defense savings bonds. The certificates themselves
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in February, 1942; » ‘measure which would be used to finance an increase in old-age | pensions to $60 a month, the plan being to have post offices sell | | tickets at $2.00 each (half-tickets $1.00) for a monthly drawing. | In 1946 Rep. Sabath (D. Ill.) dusted off his national lottery | plan, revised the myth about billions of dollars for the government |
him as saying, “People have a !
ment has not commented .on |
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ANDERSON, June 3-—Billy Joe Thomas, Reech, Ky. has .been named editor of the Andersonian campus weekly at Anderson College. Marvin Tuttle, Danville, il,
has been chosen editor of The Echoes, school yearbook Other new officers include:
Eugene Price, Hickory, N. C.,| ' business manager. of both publi- | cations; Dale Grubbs, Lebanon, ‘advertiging;; Charles Kline, An{derson. student publications board { chairman,” and W. Shirell Fox, | publicity director and adviser
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